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10 Best Movies Like In a Glass Cage

If you loved In a Glass Cage, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
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1968★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Uppe...

#2
Black Bread

Black Bread

2010★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his fa...

#3
Street of Crocodiles

Street of Crocodiles

1986★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself....

#4
River of Fundament

River of Fundament

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Be...

#5
Merantau

Merantau

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out ...

#6
Debris Documentar

Debris Documentar

2012★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In a Glass Cage for fans of Drama & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The film deals with the everyday life of a man who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time this man, Carsten, whose last name is not known, he...